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Prepare vs Fashion - What's the difference?

prepare | fashion |

As verbs the difference between prepare and fashion

is that prepare is while fashion is to make, build or construct.

As a noun fashion is

(countable) a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

prepare

English

Verb

(prepar)
  • To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
  • * Bible, Psalms cvii. 36
  • that they may prepare a city for habitation
  • * Dryden
  • our souls, not yet prepared for upper light
  • To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
  • To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
  • To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
  • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that can take a following verb in its to + infinitive form. See

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) preparation
  • * 1595 , , IV. i. 130:
  • Go levy men, and make prepare for war;

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    fashion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia fashion)
  • (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
  • (uncountable) Popular trends.
  • * John Locke
  • the innocent diversions in fashion
  • * H. Spencer
  • As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
  • (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
  • * 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
  • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}
  • The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
  • the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
  • * Bible, Luke ix. 29
  • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I do not like the fashion of your garments.
  • (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
  • men of fashion

    Derived terms

    * fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashion

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, build or construct.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
  • I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
  • * 2005 , :
  • a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
  • (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
  • * John Locke
  • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
  • (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
  • * Spenser
  • Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
  • (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * refashion